Telescope captures the most detailed infrared map ever of our Milky Way
Using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope, the team monitored the central regions of our galaxy over more ...
EurekAlert!7 天
VISTA Finds Hidden Feature of Milky Way (IMAGE)
Astronomers using the VISTA telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory have discovered a previously unknown component of the Milky Way. By mapping out the locations of a class of stars that vary in ...
EurekAlert!3 年
The Lobster Nebula Seen with ESO's VISTA Telescope (IMAGE)
This image from ESO’s VISTA telescope captures a celestial landscape of vast, glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young stars. This infrared view reveals the stellar ...
Forbes2 年
See The Jaw-Dropping New 67 Million-Pixel Images Of A Nebula Giving Birth To Stars
Found among some of the most spectacular star fields in the Milky Way, Sh2-54 was revealed by VISTA in both visible light and infrared light. Like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), VISTA is ...
Forbes4 个月
See The Gigantic New Map Of The Milky Way That Took 13 Years To Make
It dwarfs the previous attempt by the same team, published in 2012, which also used the VISTA survey telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama desert.
BBC4 年
Europe's major telescopes 'can meet satellite challenge'
The ELT will be the largest optical telescope in the world when it comes online this decade For ESO, its greatest concern centres on the Vista telescope. This is a wide-field observatory that was ...
BBC1 年
James Webb telescope detects dust storm on distant world
Webb telescope reveals theatrics of starbirth The ... end of darkness VHS 1256b was first identified by the UK-developed Vista telescope in Chile in 2015. It's what's termed a "super Jupiter ...